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Marlon ColeWed, 09 Jun 2010 22:49:30 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Cumbria – Wednesday 2nd June 2010 by Sarah Kinghttps://moushu.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/cumbria-wednesday-2nd-june-2010/#comment-5
Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:49:30 +0000http://moushu.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-5Thank-you for your post. I was holed-up at Ravenglass station last Wednesday and it’s interesting to hear the story from the other end of the line.

]]>Comment on Cumbria – Wednesday 2nd June 2010 by Richard Dawsonhttps://moushu.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/cumbria-wednesday-2nd-june-2010/#comment-4
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:18:49 +0000http://moushu.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-4A great moving account adds a real personal dimension to the story.As a Cumbrian I totally agree that those questioning the police’s effectiveness are looking at it from a metropolitan perspective.
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Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:22:44 +0000http://moushu.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-3Thanks so much for sharing your experience here. As you say, the comments about the police response etc are made in ignorance of the reality of Cumbria. By all accounts they did their absolute best to cope with a situation completely out of their everyday experience. I suspect that many rural police forces would similarly struggle but here we have an added complexity with the geography.

You and your family must be so relieved to have escaped unscathed (tho you had recently suffered another loss) – as you say, these incidents serve to make us more appreciative of the simple pleasure of being alive …

]]>Comment on Cumbria – Wednesday 2nd June 2010 by Juliehttps://moushu.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/cumbria-wednesday-2nd-june-2010/#comment-2
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:39:46 +0000http://moushu.wordpress.com/?p=3#comment-2A moving report of what happened to you and your family. A scary day for everyone here in Cumbria, my sister in law was in Whitehaven at the time but she was safe, thank goodness. My mother-in-law knew one of the ladies who lost her life. I’m glad you managed to get your walk in the end, better late then never right?

Cumbria has had a really tough time in the last year, from the floods in November, the really harsh winter, the bus crash and now the shooting. We need good news and we need the visitors who love this place so much to keep coming here. Whilst these recent events will never be forgotten they should not be the reason that Cumbria makes the headlines.

I hope that writing this made things a bit easier for you, you were bound to have gone through all the ‘if onlys’ in your mind and they are sometimes more scary than what actually happened.